The day was cold and quiet. Zane was sitting on the bank of a river near the bounty's docking point. Looking at his bruised and bloody reflection in the water, he cringed. His face was severely broken, cut and covered with blue and black punch marks.
His arms were bandaged but, chips of dried blood stuck to his pale skin, and would fall off from time to time ,when the wind picked up, into the icy cold water.
He didn't even have to look at the rest of his body, knowing that it would look the same.
Zane sighed.
He had woken up alone this morning, and was glad of it...he didn't want to be beaten again by one of his brothers...for it would probably snap him. Not like they already haven't.
Due to the past few weeks of hard training, fighting, and the abuse, Zane has acquired 3 broken ribs, 5 stitches in both sides of his mouth, broken ankle and a concussion, which he was rewarded with a month of nothing but water...
Yea, his life sucked...but he was glad to be alive, that was one thing..the other thing is finding someone who actually loves you...that'll be hard...
Anyway, the nindriod woke up with a aching in his back, and a crick in his neck. Exactly was he'd expect for laying on a hard wooden floor.
It took him a while to stand up and stretch, his legs and arms had gone numb from beatings and blood loss, mostly.
But once he did get his movement back in his limbs, he stretched, quietly made a quick sandwich and glass of water, ate that, put everything back and then now here he at the bank of a river, in cold weather and covered in nothing but a dried bloody grey jacket and blue jeans with white shoes.
He was thinking about changing but, didn't want to wake up his 'brothers' and have them yell at him again...that would cause Sensei Wu and Nya to but it...and they do the most damage...
Zane yawned and rubbed his hazel eyes. He was thinking on leaving his brothers abuse behind and starting something new, though he knew he could never...
No matter how much his brothers despise him, he will always be there to save them...Keep them alive...Love them...No matter how much, they don't.
And he means it. He's told it to them so many times it's like...it's like his motto...
'No matter what happens, what you do, what I do, I will always be there to save you, keep you alive and love you...no matter what...'
That sentence echoed in Zane's dark void of a mind, the words pounding against his brain as the wind lightly blew passed his face. Sending a wide variety of chills threw his body as the long, shaggy, blond hair, he had fell back into his blue eyes.
Then, that thought made something hit him...
'Echo...' Zane mouthed quietly. His little robot brother that Nya and Jay had found at his fathers light house...he's dead...
His little, innocent, protective and peaceful brother...was dead...Killed, or should I say drowned, by none other than one of his other 'brothers'.
Echo was taken out by Kai to the Cliff of ninjago's beach late at night. He knew Echo couldn't swim, so he just forcefully pushed the young boy off the cliff and twoards the water below...ending with a SMACK!
How did Zane know this? Kai video taped it all...the moment Kai asked if Echo could go out walking with him, the moment Echo raced up the hill in excitement, the moment Kai lured echo closer towards the cliffs edge, the last moment echoes shinning hazel eyes stared into the camera...the moment Kai pushed him off...the screaming...and the splashing...the yelling...and then, nothing...
